Windows DMD installer/VisualD still not detecting paths correctly

[Manu]

On 5 January 2014 19:50, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2014-01-05 03:38, Manu wrote:
>
>> On 5 January 2014 12:30, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com
>>
>> <mailto:turkeyman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hmm, so I jigged it so it's able to find mspdb100.dll, but now
>>     link.exe complains: "The application was unable to start correctly
>>     (0xc000007b)."
>>     That's weird.
>>
>>
>> Okay, my cludge was a 32bit/64bit dll mismatch. Works now, so it is all
>> about pathing problems.
>> This shit has really gotta 'just work' out of the box.
>>
>> Walter: Is it possible to completely override sc.ini? What needs to be
>> done to get there?
>> Rainer: What is the current state of VisualD's overriding sc.ini? What's
>> complicating the process?
>>
>
> This is the places DMD will look for sc.ini:
>
> http://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html#sc_ini
>
> What about if the installer for VisualD included DMD? Then it could
> install it anywhere it wanted, provide a custom sc.ini and avoid conflict
> with any other sc.ini files.


It's common to have multiple parallel installations of different versions
of Visual Studio. VisualD integrates with all of them. When building, it
should be using the appropriate environment for the version of Visual
Studio currently in use so that it can link properly against C/C++ projects
building in the same environment.
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